Sea Country

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Sea Country

A country composed of several small countries, closely allied with the Land of Waves for protection, as they have no hidden village of their own, and little in the way of trade with other nations. One of the islands hosts one of Orochimaru's hide-outs.

Battleship Island

Originally home to a peaceful village of woodworkers, the island was recently seized by a violent gang of pirates, and transformed into a giant stationary 'battleship', which attacks any ship unwary enough to travel within range, usually obliterating their targets with paperbomb cannon balls before the seafarers have an opportunity to respond. The few survivors who have told stories of the island mention that once the treasure is retrieved from the ocean, the pirates usually leave the original inhabitants of the boats to drown out at sea. The original residents are presumed to have been slaughtered in the violent takeover.

Silence Island

A small port island named after the Straight it guards. Its primary business is to offer supplies for passing travelers, so that boats may stock up on the long and dangerous journey through the Straight of Silence. Generally speaking, the businessmen of the island are known to be honest but overpriced. Recently, however, there's been a sharp increase of boats going missing in the Straight of Silence after visiting Silence Island (even those well stocked before arrival) which has begun to raise questions as to the honesty of the merchants there.

Demon Island

A supposedly uninhabited island. What looks like a man-made structure can be seen on the island by those who pass close enough to it, but no one who's gone to investigate the island and actually stepped foot on it have returned. Many consider the island cursed by an ancient ghost of some sort, and locals in the Land of Sea all have different horrifying stories about what they believe to be the source of the mythos and the disappearances.

Fune Island

An island known for crafting some of the best wooden ships. They sell their services at a very high price to countries shinobi or otherwise who are interested in their work.

Straight of Silence

A unique stretch of sea between the main cluster of Sea islands and the bottommost tip of the Land of Forests, where the great river of the Land of Forests empties out into the sea. Due to special currents which run through the straight, no wind of any kind blows and automatic navigation equipment fails to compute properly. The flows of most of the straight are so unpredictable and dangerous that any ship attempting to navigate it will undoubtedly sink. One path through the straight exists which is safe, but the nature of it requires the boat to ride guided only by the straight itself from one end to the other.

Only one boat's width can fit in a given point of the straight at a time, and the current itself flows at a speed which takes the average ship two weeks to cross. As there are no sea life in the straight and also no land for which plant-life to grow on, navigating the straight is a death sentence to anyone not properly supplied. To those well supplied, however, the Straight provides two weeks of relaxation, and of almost guaranteed safety from pirates or other hostile encounters.

Summoning Island

A remote island full of summoning-level creatures. A secret research lab is hidden on the island. Which village organized the research is lost to time, like the island. Among those who dig deep enough into legends, or are high enough position in influential villages, there are rumors of this lost island and of it abruptly dropping out of communication, but there is no current map which marks the location of the island, nor any current records that describe the exact subject of the research supposedly conducted there.

Chinmoku Island

Chinmoku Island is the first inhabited island beyond the Straight of Silence. Chinmoku Island is primarily a merchant's island, set up to resupply travelers who've exhausted or accidentally lost most of their cargo while traveling the Straight of Silence. Usually, their business is almost as good as Silence's at any given time. Recently, however, far more ships have been entering the Straight with crew and then exiting it completely empty. This has understandably raised concerns with the residents.